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Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and xpm4g



On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:04:42PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> Since installing XFree86 4.0.1, several of the pacakges on my computer became
> unistallable without using 'dpkg --force depends' due to them depending on
> 'xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0)' instead of 'libxpm4'.
> 
> A quick grep of /var/lib/dpkg/available reveals 55 packages that this will
> affect.  List of these is attached.
> 
> Will/Can this be fixed on the XFree86 side, or should 55 bugs be filed?

If you wish, you can file 55 wishlist bugs (to maintonly@bugs, of course)
asking the maintainers to get the latest xpm4g{,-dev} (the one in potato)
and recompile their packages against it.

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